Publishers.

What follows are two statements copied and pasted from a publisher’s submission guidelines:

‘Authors have the responsibility to ensure that their submission is free from careless errors.’

‘We will only respond to authors with whom we have an interested (sic) in publishing.’

Since I never had a response to the novella I sent them back in April, I assume they are not interest in publishing it. Might I be permitted a sardonic smirk?

I did have another short story accepted last week though, for an anthology called Undiscovered to be published by a new small press outfit. I was pleased because it’s a favourite of mine and had been rejected many times.